KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack"), (1922-1969). On the Road . New York: The Viking Press, 1957. 8 o (204 x 135 mm). Half-title. (A few minor pale stains, a few leaves dog-eared). Original black cloth, lettered in white on front cover and spine (light soiling to spine); original printed pictorial dust jacket (worn, old tape repairs on verso). Provenance : Caroline ("Nin") Kerouac Blake and Paul Blake (presentation inscription from Kerouac on the front free endpaper: "To my sister Ti Nin from Jack -- XX I hope my horoscope is right -- And to big brother Paul, may I keep em rollin." FIRST EDITION, AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KEROUAC TO HIS SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW. Caroline Kerouac, three years older than Jack, provided important support for the writer throughout his career. Kerouac here uses the diminutive prefix "Ti" common in the joual French-Canadian dialect spoken by his family. Shortly after the composition of the On the Road scroll in 1951, Kerouac left New York to stay with his sister and her husband Paul Blake in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His mother, always at the center of his universe, also visited Rocky Mount that summer, and would move in with her daughter by the end of the year. According to Ann Charters, when Kerouac arrived "he had the manuscript of On the Road with him, but he worked on it only sporadically. He had finished the heavy writing in the three-week burst in the loft..." He spent that summer in Rocky Mount writing occasionally and planning a new book, Visions of Cody , also centered on Neal Cassady. Kerouac soon began travelling again, but returned periodically to Rocky Mount to reconnect with his family. One extended stay was December 1955-March 1956, when Kerouac's served as part-time baby-sitter for his nephew, Paul, Jr., and devoted much of his time to Buddhist meditations in the woods nearby (recounted in detail in The Dharma Bums ). Shortly after Christmas 1955, his mother returned to New York to attend a funeral and Kerouac's memories of the death of his brother Gerard resurfaced, and he commenced work on the novel of his brother's brief life, Visions of Gerard , in long-hand at the kitchen table in Rocky Mount: "My sister and her husband weren't interested. They went to bed and I took over the kitchen, brewed tea and took benzedrine" (quoted in Charters, Kerouac. A Biography , New York, 1994). By the time On the Road was published in 1957, Nin and Paul Blake had moved to Florida and Jack and his mother were living in Berkeley. In November 1957, having gone to Florida with his mother, Kerouac, at the suggestion of Malcolm Cowley (a consultant with Viking), sat down again at his sister's kitchen table and began work on sequel to On the Road . In ten sittings, he produced the novel he later called a "potboiler": The Dharma Bums (see lot 233). Nin died on 19 September 1964 of a coronary occlusion.
KEROUAC, Jean-Louis Lebris de ("Jack"), (1922-1969). On the Road . New York: The Viking Press, 1957. 8 o (204 x 135 mm). Half-title. (A few minor pale stains, a few leaves dog-eared). Original black cloth, lettered in white on front cover and spine (light soiling to spine); original printed pictorial dust jacket (worn, old tape repairs on verso). Provenance : Caroline ("Nin") Kerouac Blake and Paul Blake (presentation inscription from Kerouac on the front free endpaper: "To my sister Ti Nin from Jack -- XX I hope my horoscope is right -- And to big brother Paul, may I keep em rollin." FIRST EDITION, AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KEROUAC TO HIS SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW. Caroline Kerouac, three years older than Jack, provided important support for the writer throughout his career. Kerouac here uses the diminutive prefix "Ti" common in the joual French-Canadian dialect spoken by his family. Shortly after the composition of the On the Road scroll in 1951, Kerouac left New York to stay with his sister and her husband Paul Blake in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His mother, always at the center of his universe, also visited Rocky Mount that summer, and would move in with her daughter by the end of the year. According to Ann Charters, when Kerouac arrived "he had the manuscript of On the Road with him, but he worked on it only sporadically. He had finished the heavy writing in the three-week burst in the loft..." He spent that summer in Rocky Mount writing occasionally and planning a new book, Visions of Cody , also centered on Neal Cassady. Kerouac soon began travelling again, but returned periodically to Rocky Mount to reconnect with his family. One extended stay was December 1955-March 1956, when Kerouac's served as part-time baby-sitter for his nephew, Paul, Jr., and devoted much of his time to Buddhist meditations in the woods nearby (recounted in detail in The Dharma Bums ). Shortly after Christmas 1955, his mother returned to New York to attend a funeral and Kerouac's memories of the death of his brother Gerard resurfaced, and he commenced work on the novel of his brother's brief life, Visions of Gerard , in long-hand at the kitchen table in Rocky Mount: "My sister and her husband weren't interested. They went to bed and I took over the kitchen, brewed tea and took benzedrine" (quoted in Charters, Kerouac. A Biography , New York, 1994). By the time On the Road was published in 1957, Nin and Paul Blake had moved to Florida and Jack and his mother were living in Berkeley. In November 1957, having gone to Florida with his mother, Kerouac, at the suggestion of Malcolm Cowley (a consultant with Viking), sat down again at his sister's kitchen table and began work on sequel to On the Road . In ten sittings, he produced the novel he later called a "potboiler": The Dharma Bums (see lot 233). Nin died on 19 September 1964 of a coronary occlusion.
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